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The 8 GB version of the new RTX 5060 Ti is a lot cheaper than the 16 GB one, and while the extra VRAM will be useful in the future, it's certainly not worth paying over $160 more for it. This is a great little GPU for the money.

Key specs: 4608 shaders | 2587 MHz boost | 8 GB GDDR7

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB price check: Newegg $379.99 | Walmart $379.99 | Amazon $389.99 | B&H $399.99

The RX 9070 is one of AMD's better GPUs for many years and is not that much slower than the XT version. It's been so popular that it took months for the price to drop to anywhere near AMD's MSRP. Sadly, prices are now on their way back up again, but with this promo gift card you're essentially getting it for $600. Get $30 gift card.

Key specs: 3584 shaders | 2520 MHz boost | 16 GB GDDR6

RX 9070 price check: Walmart $629.99 | Amazon $669.99 | B&H $709.99 | Best Buy $709.99

You might not like the VA panel and its low brightness, but you'll surely like the speed and price tag. 250 Hz, 0.5 ms pixel time, and adaptive sync will all help to ensure you get super-silky gaming.

Key specs: 24-inch | 250 Hz | 0.5 ms | VA

Price check: Best Buy $148.88 | Micro Centre $109.99

If you want to chase high refresh rates and don't have the love or money for OLED, you can find all you need here. This is a 27-inch gaming monitor for the price of a 24-inch, with a 280 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time. It comes with AMD FreeSync too for a silky smooth response.

Key specs: 27-inch | 280 Hz | 1 ms | VA | 1500R curve

This gaming monitor has an IPS panel capable of delivering 180 Hz. The 1440p resolution means you're getting a bit of a bump up over 1080p, too, which puts this monitor right in the sweet spot for modern PC gaming.

Key specs: 27-inch | 180 Hz | 1 ms | IPS

Price check: Amazon $155.41

Both 1440p and OLED, this 27-inch monitor from Acer has almost everything you may want to pair with your rig. It's even better now that it's $150 off, making it the cheapest OLED on our entire list right now. To top it off, it comes with a 240 Hz refresh rate, up to 0.01 ms response time, and a solid selection of ports with a DisplayPort, 2 HDMI ports, and USB Type-C.

Key specs: 27-inch | 2560 X 1440 | 240 Hz | OLED | 0.03 ms

Price check: Best Buy $399.99

This is a great all-round build for the price, offering surprisingly few compromises for the budget price tag. Don't expect to play all the latest games at a high resolutions on max settings, but for lighter 1080p or 1440p gaming it should do well.

Key specs: Core i5 14400F | RTX 5060 | 16 GB DDR5-6000 | 1 TB SSD

Budget gaming laptops deals are not great right now, indeed finding one RTX 5060 laptop deal below the $1,000 mark has been a trial. But here we are, with a Lenovo LOQ machine with a decent 115 W GPU, speedy 1080p screen, and the now miserably familiar memory/storage combo of a 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. The memory side wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the fact it's single channel, but in our review that didn't actually harm gaming performance.

Key specs: Ryzen 7 250 | RTX 5060 | 15-inch | 144 Hz | 512 GB SSD | 16 GB DDR5

This is one of Acer's S-line Nitro laptops, which means it's slimmer than you might expect for a budget gaming machine. The Nitro chassis designs have improved a lot in recent years, and this one's a good example of that. It's also pretty much the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop you can find right now, from a major manufacturer with a good supporting specs sheet. It's a shame about the 85 W GPU power limit, but with some DLSS help it should still kick fairly hard against that 1600p screen.

Key specs: RTX 5070 | Ryzen 7 260 | 16-inch | 16-inch | 1600p | 180 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD

This Vector is still one of the cheapest RTX 5080 gaming laptop you can find right now, even if it has jumped in price recently. Our Dave reviewed the Vector 16 HX AI last year and likes the value proposition you get when you take into account that mega GPU, although it is a bit of a hairdryer on full whack. Still, stick it in Balanced mode and the noise is much more reasonable, and it still performs about as well as the other RTX 5080 machines we've tested. Which is to say, very well indeed.

Key specs: RTX 5080 | Core Ultra 9 275 HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD

Price check: Best Buy $2,399.99 | Walmart $2,429

This build almost looks like a pre-memory crisis deal, primarily because it packs in some great components all around, not sacrificing in any area. The RX 9070 XT is AMD's best GPU offering, the 7800X3D is one of the fastest gaming CPUs on the market, and you're getting tons of RAM and storage capacity. All for one of the cheapest prices I've seen a decent RX 9070 XT build going for in quite a while.

Key specs: Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32 GB DDR5 | 2 TB SSD